Evening all,
As a now fully paid up member of the Linux community, my first query is:
In Suse 10.0, in media, both my DVD drives appear. One is a DVD ROM, the other a DVD RW. Once, and once only despite it being the drive the system was installed from, the DVD RW won't mount! Now I have discovered Yast which in hardware/CD shows the two drives - twice. Like DVD RW, DVD ROM, DVD ROM, DVD RW. When Yast/CD is opened, neither have mount points. Asking Yast to mount them is done, the message says changes made so I finish. I close Yast, go back to media and only one drive - the DVD ROM - is mounted. Further, my external USB drive is 'locked' if it show which mostly it doesn't. Any suggestions? There also seems to be a number of apps missing; Krita and KOffice for instance.
Cheers,
BD.
As a now fully paid up member of the Linux community, my first query is:
"paid up member" ... How Ironic !
In Suse 10.0, in media, both my DVD drives appear. One is a DVD ROM, the other a DVD RW. Once, and once only despite it being the drive the system was installed from, the DVD RW won't mount! Now I have discovered Yast which in hardware/CD shows the two drives - twice. Like DVD RW, DVD ROM, DVD ROM, DVD RW. When Yast/CD is opened, neither have mount points. Asking Yast to mount them is done, the message says changes made so I finish. I close Yast, go back to media and only one drive - the DVD ROM - is mounted. Further, my external USB drive is 'locked' if it show which mostly it doesn't. Any suggestions? There also seems to be a number of apps missing; Krita and KOffice for instance.
There should be no need to use YaST to do anything like this.
Put the disk in the drive, and it should automagically mount and appear in /media/dvd_some_thing_or_othere (I'm on a Widblows box at work so I can't look right now).
There may also be a DVD icon on your desk top. Click that and you should get a file browser display of the disk contents.
Peter
On 12/2/05, Peter Onion ponion@alien.bt.co.uk wrote:
As a now fully paid up member of the Linux community, my first query is:
"paid up member" ... How Ironic !
I, for one, have paid for Linux distributions in the past. I probably need to buy a new Debian t-shirt soon as the last one is fading.
Tim.
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 22:47 +0000, Tim Green wrote:
I, for one, have paid for Linux distributions in the past. I probably need to buy a new Debian t-shirt soon as the last one is fading.
Me too, I was a strong SuSE advocate for many years, as a rough count I would think I have bought at least 4 copies.
For me SuSE was vital to my introduction to Linux, without their excellent manuals and average support (I say average as it has ranged from very good to not so good over the years...at the moment since Novell it has been as good as it has ever been, if not better) I don't feel I would have gotten very far with Linux and may have even given up altogether.
I feel there is a place for both commercial and community supported distributions.
On Friday 02 December 2005 22:47, Tim Green wrote:
On 12/2/05, Peter Onion ponion@alien.bt.co.uk wrote:
As a now fully paid up member of the Linux community,
"paid up member" ... How Ironic !
I, for one, have paid for Linux distributions in the past.
I too paid for my first RH CD, now I peddle custom Linux CDs from darkened rooms in pubs, on cold streets on a stormy night, or where ever there is someone who needs a "fix" for the dreaded BSOD..
Regards, Paul.
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